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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1936, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH PAGE 2A' KATTELUN AGAIN KILLS ASSOCIATE AND SELF LAGGING ALASKAN COLONISTS ORDERED TO WORK OR GET OUT Witness at Tunnel Inquiry WPA Says Each of 160 Families Must Have 10 Acres Cleared by May, Regardless of Winter Weather. i-v 4 1 Asjociated Press Wirepboto. MISS PHILIPPA ALLEN, 50CIAL worker of New York, telling House Labor Committee that workers on the tunnel at Cauley Bridge, W.

did not have safety devices to protect them from silico dust. ELLSWORTH AND AID FOUND SAFE IN LITTLE AMERICA Continued From Page One. AT DIRECTORS' MEETING John E. Jambor of Milwaukee in Note Alleges "Double Crossing Was on Increase." MILWAUKEE, Jan. 17.

John E. Jambor, 53 years old, shot and killed Harry E. Pressinger, 54, and himself at a directors' meeting yesterday. At least four persons witnessed the shooting. Pressinger was secretary of the Jambor Tool Stamping of which Jambor was vice-president and treasurer.

They had been associated for about 20 years, but for many months an enmity had been growing between them. As Pressinger stooped to remove documents from the safe, Jambor drew a pistol and fired two shots into Pressinger's head and one into his own. In Jambor's pocket, police found a typewritten note, v-ith an appendix in ink. It was unsigned and read: "My last joke, rather a weird one, but the double crossing was on the increase and it seems this was the only remedy." MORRO CASTLE CAPTAIN'S LICENSE SUSPENDED IN 1926 William F. Warms Makes Admis sion; Also Testifies to Laxity at Boat Drills.

tbe Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 17. Capt. William F.

Warms, on trial for criminal negligence as master of the Morro Castle when it burned off the New Jersey coast in September, 1934 with a loss of 124 lives, admitted under cross-examination today that his master's license had been suspended in 1926. Warms also testified that there was a general laxity on the part of crew members during life boat drills and that many of them failed to go to their stations. Warms testified earlier that he ordered an sent out the instant he learned the fire was beyond control. Co-defendants with Warms are Eben S. Abbott, chief engineer; Henry E.

Cabaud, executive vice-president of the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship and the company itself. MINER KILLED FROM AMBUSH NEAR SHAFT AT UNIONTOWN, KY. 30 Shots Fired Into Auto as Workers Approach Fit That Changed Unions. By tbe Associated Press. MORGANFIELD, Jan.

17. Paul Meadows, 24 years old, was shot to death from ambush today as he approached the Kingdon Coal and Coke Co. mine near Uniontown where he was employed. Thirty shots were fired into an automobile containing Meadows and several other miners. A reward of $1000 was offered by the coal company for the arrest and conviction of the assailants.

Meadows belonged to the Independent Miners' Union. The mine, which formerly employed United Mine Workers of America members, closed last Sept. 22 and reopened about 10 days ago under a contract with the Independent union. A similar attack on miners at Uniontown was reported Monday morning. merce, county court judges and others interested in the relief problem, termed the present relief situation in Missouri "the most desperately critical since the depression set in." "Every dollar of both Federal and State money available for direct relief purposes will be exhausted on March 31," the letter said.

"In the meantime these funds are so restricted that Relief Administrator Crossley has been forced to turn back to the counties the care of all unemployables. "In many, if not in most counties, it will be an utter financial impossibility to take over locally the large relief load which will remain on March 31. In fact the present task of taking over the heavy load of unemployables is beyond the ability of many counties." By the Associated Press. PALMER, Alaska, Jan. 17.

An ultimatum "Go to work or get out" was issued to lagging colonists in Matanuska Valley last night by Manager Ross L. Sheely, who car ried out an order of the Works Pro- I A. WWT gress Administration ai wasnmg- ton. Investigators had reported that colonists in several instances refused to work. Sheely said that each of the 160 families must have 10 acres of land cleared and ready for stump pulling operations by May 1 regardless of the winter weather now prevailing.

He also called on all families to "clean up" around their homes in two days. He threatened to deprive disobedient ones of their household equipment and other articles they had been obtaining from colony stores. The Works Progress Administration directed Sheely to require hard work of all new settlers. The instructions said those failing to develop their farms could consider JUDGE REFUSES TO RETURN $10,000,000 IN AAA TAXES Says Chicago Packers and Others Must Await Final Mandate of Supreme Court. By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Jan. 17. United States District Judee James Hj Wilkerson refused today to return about $10,000,000 in processing taxes impounded in his court, as serting the packers and others who posted the money must await a final mandate of the Supreme Court on the Agricultural Adjust ment Act. Referring to the Hoosac Mills case, in which the United States Su preme Court held the AAA invalid, Judge" Wilkerson said: "A mere opinion is not a mandate. Under the rules of the Su preme Court, the parties have the right to ask for a rehearing.

The decision was not unani mous; there was a very able dissenting opinion; and since there have been cases in which the Su preme Court changed its opinion I see no valid reason for undue haste here." Yesterday United States District Judge John P. Barnes ordered the return of cash and bonds deposited by seven packers and one milling company. INSURANCE MAN ON TRIAL ON MURDER PLOT CHARGE Clyde V. Williams of Charleston, Accused of Complicity in Killing of Laborer. By the Associated Press.

JACKSON, Jan. 17. Before a jury of farmers, Clyde V. Williams, 48 years old, former Charleston insurance agent, went on trial today charged with com plicity in the murder of Lige Mc- Cutcheon, Mississippi County laborer, last summer. Questioning of prospective jurors yesterday indicated Prosecuting At torney Jim Haw may demand the death penalty.

The State charges that Williams instigated an "insurance murder plot" which resulted in the killing. Two men charged with participation in the murder are serving life terms in prison. One of them, Albert Vowells of Wyatt, was brought here from the penitentiary to testify against Williams. In the opening statement, Rich ard L. Ward, defense attorney, declared Williams was not implicated in the killing.

A $2500 policy which McCutcheon held was canceled by the insurance company several days before he was killed. Ward said. MISSOURI RELIEF HEADS TO ASK FOR U.S.F Also Decide in Conference at Jefferson City to Seek Special Session of Legislature. By a Staff Correspondent of The rost-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY.

Jan. 17. Relief administrators of St. Louis and other Missouri cities, who gathered here today for a conference on the pressing relief problem voted to appoint a committee to draft resolutions calling on the Federal Government to grant additional funds and upon Gov. Park to call a special session of the Legislature to appropriate more money for relief.

The action followed a talk by Wallace Crossley, State relief administrator, in which he said the State administration funds would be exhausted after April 1, its doors would be closed and its business liquidated. It will be up to the cities and counties to take care of thei runempovables then, he de clared, with the WPA taking care of the employables. Gov. Park, who had previously indicated he would not appear, visited the meeting briefly, leaving after Crossley's speech. He said he had nothing to say, and merely came for information.

He left this afternoon for a Florida vacation. After his return, 10 or 12 days from now, he told a reporter before the meeting, he would study any recommendation which might result from the con ference. He said he had not con sidered the advisability of calling any special session of the Legisla ture and was not prepared to indi cate how he might view a request for such an action. Doesn't Want Special Session. This being an election year, the Governor is anxious to avoid a spe cial session for political reasons Consequently the relief administra tors met with a reception here.

Crossley at first expressed doubt as to whether he would attend the meeting. He stipulated that if he did atend, he did not want to "appear to be responsible for any action that may be taken at the meeting." The committee appointed to draft the resolution was composed of Connett, J. M. Richards, chairman of the Hannibal relief committee and C. G.

Scruggs, chairman of the Cole County (Jefferson City) relief committee. The impending crisis in the re lief situation arises from the fact that the Federal Government has ceased its allotments for direct relief, on the theory that the WPA would provide jobs for all of the un employed able to work, and that the states and local communities should take care of those in need of relief but unable to work. Funds Until March 31. However, the State's $2,500,000 ap propriation for relief will be ex hausted by March 31, and the local communities, in general, have been able to provide no substantial portion of the required funds. St.

Louis has the $147,000 a month made possible by the relief bond issues, plus $300,000 of State money to be allotted each month so long as the State fund for relief lasts. but there are about 20,000 relief cases in St. Loui; and the money has been spread so thinly that the Church Federation's Social Service Commission recently denounced the relief provided as "Woefully inade quate and almost, debasing." The conference today was called by a committee whose members in clude E. E. Amick, chairman of the Kansas City Advisory Relief Com mittee; J.

Porter Henry, chairman of the St. Louis County Relief Com mittee; Scruggs, Herman H. Loh meyer, president of the Springfield Community Chest, and Mrs. A. McGlothan, president of the St Joseph Community Chest.

Calls Situation Critical. Amick, in his letter calling the conference, which was sent to relief administrators, chambers of coi We Give Easle Stamps Headquarters for POLICE Shoes Extra Special ieep iour reet Warm and Dry BLACK CALF Wearproof linine. otTuU Sizes 6 to 13 SPF.CTAT. SHOE Arch Support and $C00 to 13, and Other Remarkable Values I 1 MS TRIED FOR Charge Broker Ignored eree's Order Taken Under Advisement by Judge, Testimony that Federal lnvestf, gators have been making inquiry into the dealings of Harold J. Kat.

telman, bankrupt stock and bond broker, was given in Federal Court today, when Kattelman appearej before United States District Judg, Moore on a second citation charg. ing him with contempt of court. Kattelman has been held in citj I jail since Wednesday, when Judg, Moore sentenced him to Pik, County jail at Bowling Green, to be held until ne turns over X39 rM cash and certain records of hi. business. The contempt charge heard today was based on his fail.

I ure to comply with an otdet of John A. Hope, the court's ref. eree in bankruptcy, to file aEst sets and liabilities. Kattelman's defense, in both con-tempt cases, was that by proa. ing the records and furnishing the information desired, he would be I giving evidence against himself, and that such a requirement violated 1 his constitutional rights.

His counsel today called Morrii J. Levin, trustee in bankruptcy for i the Kattelman business, who testi. fied that he knew agents of thi Federal Intelligence and Incomi Tax units were investigating Kat-1 telman 's affairs, and that he kcet! of other official inquiries. Judge Moore took the second 1 case under advisement, and gavT" the lawyers five days to file briels; A second contempt citation, if sued, would, like the first, run unttV the prisoner should comply witifh the order. United States Marshal Fahy after the hearing, that he would? send Kattelman to Bowling Greet jail today, in charge of a deputy.

The prisoner was neatly dressed, with a clean shave and shoes fresfc ly shined. STATEMENT BY TREASURY ON SILVER PURCHASES Government Stocks Still Ounces Less Than Third of Gold Base, WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. The! Treasury disclosed indirectly last night that it is still 1,300,000,000 ounces short of building up silver stocks to one-third of the domestie monetary gold base. Secretary of the Treasury Mor-genthau announced that of silver amounted to 8.15,112,0(1 fine ounces through Dec.

27, 192. He said 58,996,000 ounces had beet acquired under the executivr, proclamation of Dec. 21, 1933, and 663,900,000 ounces under the silver purchase act of June 19, 1934. Tb presidential act of Aug. 9, 1934, nfrj; tionalizing silver, resulted in thi acqusition of 112,216,000 ouncea The Silver Purchase Act ulated that the Treasury should buy silver until its stocks equaled one-third of the domestic monetary gold base, or until the price reached $1.29 an ounce.

MORE THAN 14 OFF! modes and materials perfect lot Winter and early Spring including Evening Shoes I You can be fitted beautiful shoes I C01 ST SHERIFF ADMITS EXCESSIVE FEES George M. Barham Tells of Sale of Tax-Delinquent Land for $2853 County and State Got $230. HE RECEIVED $465 OF COSTS OF $2623 State Accountants Learn County Owes Twice as Much as Anticipated Gross Revenues for 1936 By a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. BLOOMFIELD, Jan. 17.

a Sheriff George M. Barham of Stoddard County today admitted, to the Post-Dispatch correspondent, that excessive fees, in which he shared, were charged in sale of land for delinquent taxes. At one such sale, the Sheriff admitted, land on which $15,390 delinquent taxes were due was sold for $2853, and the county and state received only $230, the fees and costs heing $2623, including $465.55 for the Sheriff. Accountants from the office of State Auditor Forrest Smith have just completed an audit of the accounts of Stoddard County, after 14 months' work. The county, it has developed during the inquiry, owes twice as much as its anticipated gross revenue for 1936.

The State Auditor has not made public any information as to the findings of the audit. Belief Situation. A. H. Harrison, representing the State Relief Commission in eight Southeast Missouri counties, reported recently that Stoddard County was bankrupt, and was the least able of the counties in his district to shoulder the load imposed by the return of unemployable persons to local relief.

Examination of Stoddard County Circuit Court records showed that, while sale of land to satisfy tax judgments had yielded large sums in fees, the returns to State and county treasuries had been very small. In the case already mentioned, in which the sale occurred in December, 1934, besides the Sheriffs fee and mileage allowance of $465.55, the County Collector, then Everett E. Good, received and Good's attorney, K. W. Blomeyer, received a fee of $1311.29.

The rest went to newspapers for publication of notices, title examination, and incidental expenses. Fees Fixed by Law. Had the Missouri statutes governing fees been followed, Sheriff Barham readily agreed, the State and county would have received $1900 Instead of $230. The law plainly states that fee's are to be based upon the amount of money "actually collected" bn sales and paid to the treasurer. He computed that he should have received only $100.59, this being a 3 per cent commission and $15, for miscellaneous fees and mileage; and that Good should have received $142.65, or 5 per cent, and Blomeyer, $285.30, or 10 per cent The basis of computation of fees, as described by Sheriff Bar ham, was somewhat fantastic.

The practice, he said, was to reckon them on the amount sued for, plus costs, regardless of the amount which the land brought. "I'm just a horse trader, I'm not a lawyer," the Sheriff observed. "I know we weren't entitled to charge more than what our fees figured on the basis of the amount actually collected, but I've lost $5000 in fees since I took office the first of 1933, because lots of land sold for taxes didn't bring enough to pay my fee for selling it. "Think cf it! Farm land bringing no more than $50 a section (640 acres). I have had to sell the same land, in soie cases, two or three times without getting my fees.

My books are open to anybody who wants to see them and I want to do the right thing. As far as I know, they have always figured fees here as we've been doing." Stoddard County, with a population of 27,452, containine much good farm land, showed outstanding indebtedness of about $90,000 at the end of 1934. Its financial condition did not improve during 1935 and its anticipated revenue for 1936 is about $45,000. The county has no bonded indebtedness, and the amount owed Is represented by outstanding tax anticipation warrants. For several years the maximum tax rate permitted under the State constitution has been levied.

In 1934 it was 40 cents on the $100 valuation for county purposes on a total assessment of $12,510,318. Won't Serve in Philippine Army. MANILA, Jan. 17. Rizal town officials reported today that Sak- dlasita leaders announced their fol lowers would refuse to register for compulsory military service.

They earn the Sakdals would rather go to jail than serve in the Philippine army. All 20-year-old Filipino men were ordered to register by April 7 in a manifesto issued Monday by President Manuel Quezon promulgating the drastic commonwealth defense act ODDARD COUNTY themselves "automatically disquali fied." "It is expected," said a WPA telegram to Sheely, "that each settler be industrious, develop his farm and display a co-operative attitude." Investigators quoted one colonist as saying "we don't need money. We can eet everything we want from the commissary on credit Why work?" Several colonists have been doing carnentrv and other special con struction work on a pay basis of 25 per cent cash and 75 per cent credit, the latter counting in the $3000 credit given each family at the outset, along with 40 acres of land. The commissary reported it was holding colonists "in line on food bills. These previously aggregated $22,000 a month, but now run about $9000.

About 40 families returned to the United States last spring in a weed ing out of discontented colonists The colony now consists of 336 adults and 419 children. SIX MOVIE DISTRIBUTORS LOSE APPEAL IN S. COURT Held to Have Violated Anti-Trust Law by Exacting Agreements Against Double Features. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Jan.

17. The United States Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that six moving picture distributors violated the Ser-man anti-trust law by making independent exhibitors agree not to show double feature programs in order to get their films. The decision was handed down in the appeal of Fox Films, from a similar decision given by Federal Judge George A. Welsh in favor of Harry and Louis Perelman, operators of an independent theater in Philadelphia. The other distributing companies affected by the ruling are Vitagraph, R.

K. O. Distributing Corporation; Paramount Pictures Distributing Corporation; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation, and United Artists Corporation. PLANE CRASH DEAD PUT AT 12 By the Associated Press. BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan.

17. Un confirmed reports said today the death toll of the plane crash in Southern Colombia had been increased to 12, with the death of three victims while they were being transported through the jungle to the military post of Puerto Boy. The three, it was reported, in cluded Capt, Charles K. Adams, previously reported uninjured. Illinois Judge Takes Vacation.

By the Associated Press. FREEPORT, 111., Jan. 17. Con valescing from a recent attack of sciatica, Justice Elwyn R. Shaw of the Illinois Supreme Court, and Mrs.

Shaw departed tonight for Hot Springs, for a two weeks rest. The jurist said he would return to Springfield when court convenes Feb. 4. HANDBAGS 79 Regularly $1.00. Marvelous values I CLEARANCE New all many 708 Washington Little America forced it to give up its own scientific survey in Antarctica, as the channnels there are navigable for only a month or two at most.

The Discovery, a steel schooner of 1000 tons, registered from the Falkland Islands, was strengthened for navigation through ice. The original Discovery, for which the Discovery II was named, is preserved as a relic on the East India Docks in London. It was used by Capt Scott on his Southern voyages. Ellsworth and Hollick-Kenyon were last heard from Nov. 23 shortly after they started to fly across Antarctica from Dundee Island to the Ross Sea.

Dundee Island is 600 miles south of Capt Horn, southernmost tip of South America; and the Ross Sea is south of New Zealand. The British and Australian Governments finally launched their rescue expedition Jan. 1, the Discovery II sailing from Dunedin, N. bearing stores of supplies and two airpalnes, to make searching flights if the ship could not find the men. Another rescue vessel, the Wyatt Earp, supply ship of the Ellsworth expedition, was en route to Little America under the command of Sir Hubert Wilkins to join the search.

The Wyatt Earp bore a plane flown from the United States to South America by Dick Merrill, and equipped with skiis and pontoons, also to undertake searching fights. Hollick-tfenjon's Wife Walks Mile In Snow to Get News. By the Associated Press. EWING'S LANDING, B. Jan 17.

Mrs. Herbert Hollick-Kenyon walked a mile over snowbound roads today to the nearest telephone to hear the news that her husband and Lincoln Ellsworth were safe in the Antarctic. "I felt confident they would get through," she said. "I haven't worried more than I could help. I never lost confidence." Then she rushed home to tell her children, Timothy, 6 years old, and Mary Lea, 9.

Sedalia Transient Bureau Ciosed. By the Associated Press. SEDALIA, Jan. 17. The ransient Bureau here closed Thursday and 80 residents were sent to a camp at Kaiser, Mo.

Turner, superintendent, went to Kaiser as superintendent under the Resettlement Administration. WqA NO DUST MASKS FOR WORKERS IN TUNNEL, WITNESS SAYS Finally Provided in Last Stages of Construction, Congressmen Are Told. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.

Miss Philippa Allen, a social worker of New York City, testified before a House sub-committee today that the contractor for the Hawk's Nest (W. Va.) tunnel did not provide proper safety devices for men who drilled through silica rock and contracted silicosis by breathing dust. Representative 1 Vito Marcan-tonio New York, who contends 476 men died and 1500 others are dying of silicosis as a result of working in the tunnel in 1930 and 1931, is urging a Federal inquiry into labor conditions in all tunnel projects. Miss Allen detailed symptoms of silicosis, said it was incurable and that she was interested as "an honest citizen" in bringing the Hawk's Nest tunnel deaths to the attention of the public. She said that the course of the tunnel had been charted to obtain the silica sand after the deposit was discovered and that the size of the tunnel also had been enlarged.

She said engineers for the contractors, when they visited the tunnel, wore gas masks to protect them from the silica dust but that no masks were provided the workers until the last stages of construction in 1931. U. S. COURT HEARING TUESDAY FOR TIFF STRIKE LEADER Writ of Habeas Corpus Issued on Behalf of Joe Morris, In Jail at Potosi. A writ cf habeas corpus requiring Joe Morris of the American Workers' Union be taken into United States District Court at 2 p.

m. Tuesday for a hearing on the legality of Morris' conviction for contempt of court by Circuit Judge Frank Kelly at Potosi was issued yesterday by Federal Judge Moore. The order was directed against Sheriff Stephen T. Richards of Washington County where Morris is committed to jail, in Potosi, until he pays a $50 fine. The application for the writ charged Morris is being deprived of his constitutional rights by his incarceration.

It challenged the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court and the failure of the Missouri Supreme Court to issue a writ of habeas corpus. Morris was convicted on the charge he told striking tiff miners that Circuit Judge E. M. Dearing, who issued a restraining order against them should be impeached. FARMER'S VIEW OF AAA RULING Constitution Amended for Drink.

Why Not for Food? By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. Repre sentative John A. Martin Colorado, read into the House record today a Colorado farmer's pen ciled note, which Martin termed "one of the best observations on the AAA decision I have seen." Wrote W.

B. Williams of Kiowa County: 'They amended the Constitution to give us something to drink. Now why can't they amend the Constitution to give us something to eat?" ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ounded by JOSKPH FLUTZKK Dt. 12.

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